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As long as they keep this rebadging nonsense away from the retail sectors, I'm not bothered too much by it.

Why do OEMs insist on this nonsense in the first place? Perhaps AMD and Nvidia should form a pact to refrain from this and not give in to the OEM's demands (who don't have anywhere else to turn to for a discrete GPU). I mean ffs we have a 700 series part with a Fermi core and an 8000 series part with an Evergreen core.Reply

It matters because most people simply don't peruse these forums, and never will.

But one thing about 'truth' is that it does, eventually, come out into the public mind share. And when it does, AMD and NVIDIA will have destroyed their names.

I have absolutely no sympathy for them. -7.7% discrete GPU sales. A flagging PC game market. PC sales declining. There is no true reason for upgrading GPU or CPU more frequently than ~5 years now (GTX 260 does fine even today), and I suspect that will bump up to 7 or 8 years going forward.

Since nVidia wouldn't dumb itself down enough to the level of my peers here, I drank a gallon of battery acid then hung upside down, so now video card names are all a jumble in my awesome "techie" brain that I use to blab my opinion here all the time about how hard it is to keep any video card speeds straight. I tried some baking soda but it didn't bring it back.

I'm still not mad at the OEM's because I'm too stupid to do that, so I still blame nVidia but not amd because amd does no evil.

Thanks for watching my drool, I'm glad there's good angel people out there watching my hunched over tard back, so I don't get ripped off.

All this rebadging is detrimental to their sales. Most people have no idea what any of their products are and just buy the cheapest current gen card. They could make a lot more money will more transparent branding.Reply

Yep. I and many others stopped buying NV GPUs because of their rebadging and stupid naming schemes. If they had any sense at all they'd cruise the forums more for REAL customer feedback and realize this.Reply

So you don't buy AMD cards then either eh? Dogging NV without realizing both companies do the same stuff for the exact same reason (OEM pressure) is ridiculous at best and biased at worst.

Both do the exact same thing. Both have stupid naming schemes.

It's not detrimental to EITHER companies sale, actually quite the contrary. The whole point is to fool the buying public at large (which means people NOT reading a site like this). It works rather well or at least doesn't matter. You either are buying a new pc or not, the public really doesn't care about a rebadge...It's in a new computer which is what they were after to begin with.

Most people don't buy new pc's but once every 4-6 years (much like business, except for the few who do it every 1-2 like me and many on here as we build our own). In that time whatever they buy in a NEW gpu card will more than double (at worst most likely) if they're buying in the same price range at both times. If you bought a PC even 3 years ago for say $900 (let along more normal 4-6yrs ago), whatever you buy today for $900 will KILL that pc in gpu and cpu too most likely. Having said that if you buy $900 3 years ago and try buying something for $400 today and expect to double/triple your gpu performance you deserve what you get (a rebadge and old chip tech that barely upgrades you and not probably noticeable).Reply

Homeles had the right idea; if you're savvy enough to research the parts then you'll never get stung. I'd prefer the retail products to be a single generation instead of two (or even three), however I guess we don't always get what we want.Reply

Ugh. There's a reason I quit buying Nvidia products, I am a brainwashed stupid amd fanboy just like my buddy in the amd rebrand story where I declared I only buy amd after complaining nVidia rebrands are confusing, because I thought I bought one thing and instead I bought something else, being the idiot consumer all the lovely angels here complain to try to protect. However, I'm such an idiot and a fanboy I ignore amd's rebranding and just drool satisfyingly at my amd mouse cursor bug and GSOD's knowing my smaller market dying amd bankrupt brand with bad drivers is not confusing because any amd card is a GREAT CARD !